Rita Ora looked fierce at the VMAs over the weekend and she's got plenty of fighting spirit, too.

The I Will Never Let You Down singer, who has been at war with her ex Calvin Harris after he banned her from the performing song at the Teen Choice Awards because he produced it, admits it's been a difficult time but she's not letting the drama get to her too much.

During an interview backstage at the VMAs, she told The Sun newspaper: "People forget that I’m a 23-year-old girl. What do normal girls my age do? They’re at uni, dating. It’s been difficult but it takes more than a few words to knock this girl out."

You go girl!

Showing Calvin what he's missing at the VMAs (Image: Splash)

She added: "I'm so lucky I'm surrounded by the best friends in the entire universe. And I'm so focused on getting this album finished. I'm blessed by distractions."

Superstar DJ Calvin, who dated Rita for a year before they split in June, axed her performance at the awards ceremony recently and claimed on Twitter he had a "damn good reason" for blocking it.

There have also been reports her latest album has been stalled because Calvin had worked on it and she is having to re-do a number of tracks, but she claims this isn't the case.

Rita explained: "It was always meant to have been released early next year. That's never changed. I don't understand why people said anything different."